You’ll want Nexar’s newly released Live Map for your city

Extracting and exposing valuable insights to enable smart cities and many other applications. I recently had the privilege of getting a preview of Nexar’s Live Map, from my friend, Nexar’s CTO and co-founder Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz. Nexar uses off-the-shelf smartphones and dash-cams, sophisticated data ingestion, data processing, sensor fusion, and machine learning software to realize theirContinue reading “You’ll want Nexar’s newly released Live Map for your city”

Machine intelligence for content distribution, logistics, smarter cities, and more

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Rhea Liu on technology trends in China. In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Rhea Liu, analyst at China Tech Insights, a new research firm that is part of Tencent’s Online Media Group. If there’s one placeContinue reading “Machine intelligence for content distribution, logistics, smarter cities, and more”

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication networks can help fuel smart cities

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz on the importance of building the ground control center of the future. In this episode of the Data Show, I spoke with Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, co-founder and CTO of Nexar. We first met when he was leading Yahoo! technicalContinue reading “Vehicle-to-vehicle communication networks can help fuel smart cities”

How intelligent data platforms are powering smart cities

[A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] Smart cities and smart nations run on data. According to a 2014 U.N. report, 54% of the world’s population resides in urban areas, with further urbanization projected to push that share up to 66% by the year 2050. This projected surge in population has encouragedContinue reading “How intelligent data platforms are powering smart cities”